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About the Role
This role leads the AEMEA performance and investment effectiveness mini squad, setting the regional standard for execution, partner performance management, and investment governance. It ensures capability building and measurable business impact in partnership with Accenture and senior AEMEA stakeholders, with a focus on return on investment.
Responsibilities
- Lead partnership with Accenture, including joint delivery plans, capability programs, tools, and impact reporting.
- Lead the performance and return on investment mini squad strategy, roadmap, and operating model across AEMEA.
- Establish regional standards for measurement, learning agendas, experimentation, and benefits realization, ensuring adoption and quality.
- Own regional agency performance governance, including evaluation frameworks, scorecards, improvement plans, and escalation paths.
- Drive investment governance, including decision forums, prioritization principles, and business case quality, ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Engage senior stakeholders to communicate progress, risks, and impact, influencing funding and decisions with clear rationale.
Requirements
- University level education.
- Advanced training in measurement, media effectiveness, experimentation, or finance for marketers preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in digital transformation, digital marketing, electronic commerce, analytics, or consulting.
- 5+ years leading regional programs, capability building, or performance governance.
- Strong experience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning markets to shared standards.
- Demonstrates strong business, financial, and analytical thinking, applying data, measurement, and optimization expertise to support effective digital investment decisions and drive business outcomes.
- Strong leadership capability with the ability to raise standards, coach and develop others, foster accountability, and build trust-based, high-performing teams and partnerships.
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and executive communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex topics clearly and persuasively across markets, functions, agencies, external partners, and regional/global headquarters, including close collaboration with teams in Japan.
- Proven experience managing agency and partner relationships with a strong focus on governance, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity, with strong prioritization, program management, and structured execution capabilities in dynamic regional environments.
- Curious, open-minded, and proactive in challenging existing ways of working through evidence-based thinking and new approaches.
Skills
- Digital transformation
- Digital marketing
- Electronic commerce
- Analytics
- Consulting
- Measurement
- Media effectiveness
- Experimentation
- Finance for marketers
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing
- Executive communication
- Agency management
- Partner relationship management
- Governance
- Prioritization
- Program management
- Structured execution
- Evidence-based thinking
Location
- AEMEA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum 10 years of experience
- 5+ years leading regional programs
Education Level
- University level education
- Advanced training in measurement, media effectiveness, experimentation, or finance for marketers preferred
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Competitive salaries
- Health and wellbeing offers
- Pension schemes
- Insurance options
About the Company
- Kao is listed as one of the world’s most ethical companies for the last 20 years.
- Our EMEA brand portfolio spans across three sectors: Consumer Care (John Frieda, Guhl, Bondi Sands, Bioré, Jergens, Curél), Professional Hair (Goldwell, Oribe, KMS Hair, Kerasilk), and Molton Brown.
- Our corporate philosophy, The Kao Way, guides us in everything we do – acting with integrity, courageously driving innovation, and treating each other with trust and respect.
- We believe the diversity of our teams strengthens our global mission.
- We trust and respect each other, collaborating in a friendly and inclusive work environment to achieve great results.
- An entrepreneurial environment where passionate and innovative teams come together.
- Respect, teamwork and collaboration are at the heart of how we work.
- A workplace culture that prioritizes employee wellbeing, with opportunities to get involved in initiatives such as Mental Health First Aiders, our Charity Committee, and DE&I communities.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Your voice matters here, we value entrepreneurial thinking and innovation from our teams.
- 33,000 people across the Globe work at Kao.
- Discover careers at Kao and how we live our purpose, Kirei – Making Life Beautiful.